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Events on Sunday 20 December 1046 1
1046Synod of Sutri deposes three rival popesHenry III resolves the papal schismAt the Synod of Sutri, Emperor-elect Henry III presided over the deposition of competing claimants to the papacy: Benedict IX, Sylvester III, and Gregory VI. The council cleared the way for the election of a German bishop as pope, ending years of schism in Rome. Days later Clement II was installed as the new pontiff.